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From: david@×××××××××.com
To: "Peter S. Mazinger" <ps.m@×××.net>
Cc: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@g.o>, AJ Armstrong <aja@g.o>, Embedded Gentoo Mail List <gentoo-embedded@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] base-layout lite
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:16:07
Message-Id: 20031212221518.GA18344@redhate.futuretel.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] base-layout lite by "Peter S. Mazinger"
1 On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:07:25PM +0100, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
2 > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 david@×××××××××.com wrote:
3 >
4 > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:09:51PM +0100, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
5 > > > Not in busybox, but you'll find it on http://www.fefe.de/minit/ and there
6 > > > is a link to another explanation (attached) and configs.
7 > > >
8 > >
9 > > wow, minit is really cool.... from the docs page:
10 > >
11 > > "Minit puts all its configuration-files into /etc/minit by default, but
12 > > you can change that very easy. Minit brings two companion utilities
13 > > with it: msvc and pidfilehack. msvc can start and stop processes just
14 > > like svc from the daemontools. pidfilehack can be used to run daemons
15 > > like ssh, read the PID and tell minit this PID so minit will know when
16 > > sshd exits and can restart it."
17 > >
18 > > looks like everything we need is already taken care of with minit...
19 > >
20 > > * special config info for each service can be set
21 > > * dependancies
22 > > * specific CLI switches(parameters) for each service
23 > > * tracking of run away services(go find th pid!)
24 > > * logging
25 > >
26 > > I've got some things that I've been working with, and I figure adding
27 > > minit would be a good little test. I'll post my results in the next
28 > > couple of days.
29 > I have already a busybox based version of the startup files (busybox ash
30 > scripts) the only non-busybox utility is devfsd (I do not know how the
31 > /etc/devfsd.conf should look like to conform to busybox's devfsd needs
32 > Interested? I'll send you a tarball of my /etc/minit.
33 >
34
35 sure sounds good. I also found some example stuff on the minit
36 website here: http://www.fefe.de/minit/minit-data.tar.bz2
37
38 more exmaples are always fun!
39 Dave
40
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